Hook-and-eye fastener.



No. 8901363. PATENTED JUNE 9, 1908.

A. KLEIN. HOOK AND EYE FASTENER.

APPLIOATION FILEDJAN. 16, 1908.

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ADOLPII KLEIN, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOOK-AND-EYE FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented .Tune 9, 1908.

Application filed January 16, 1908. Serial No. 411,061.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADoLPHE KLEIN, a subject of the King of IIungary, residing at North Side Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hook-and-Eye Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to hook and eye fasteners, and the primary object of the invention is to provide means for attaching a hook and eye member to a fur piece in a manner which will securely hold the same A therein and which is adapted for use in connection with fur pieces of various forms and tyles such as a collar, cestus, cardon, or

oop.

Another object of my invention is to provide a hook and eye member 'both of which can be firmly anchored in a fur piece Without injuring or tearing the fur piece, and without the necessity of sewing to secure the same.

A practical embodiment of my invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, and will be hereinafter described in detail, and while I have shown and will describe the preferred form of my invention, I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise construction shown and described, as the construction may be varied in minor particulars without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention. i

In the drawings Figure l is an elevation of a fur piece provided with my improved fastener. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the strip of material from which the eye member is formed, showing the same before being bent to provide the eye. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the eye member in its completed form, ready to be attached to a fur piece, Fig. 4 is a similar view of the eye member showing the same with the shank thereof inserted through a fur piece. Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, illustrating the eye member anchored in the fur piece. Fig. 6 is an elevation of a portion of a fur piece, showing the anchored end of the eye member, and Fig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 5 showing the hook member anchored in a fur piece.

To put my invention into practice, I provide a comparatively thin strip of material 1, preferably metal, the ends 2 of which are pointed, and these pointed ends 2 are longitudinally slitted or split as at 3 so as to provide a plurality of anchoring prongs by means of which the eye member may be firmly fastened to a fur piece, as will hereinafter more fully appear. The said strip of material 1 from which the eye member is formed is, after having its ends pointed and slitted as above described, doubled upon itself so as to bring the two pointed ends together to form the shank 5, the doubled end of the strip being provided with the eye 4.

Previous to doubling the strip of material as described, the same is cut or slitted as at 7, Fig. 2, and the pointed portions thereby produced are bent outwardly to form fur engaging prongs 8, and after the strip has been doubled as afore described, the two arms of the shank 5 are intertwisted as at 6 (see Fig. 4) so that the eye member will retain its normal shape ready for insertion into the fur piece. In connection with the eye member, I may employ a chain 411 as shown in Fig. 5, which will permit of the ends of the fur piece being loosely connected together.

After the eye member has been formed as above described, it is inserted through a fur piece 9 at the desired point as illustrated in igs. 4 and 5 of the drawing, and the prongs or shank ends 10 formed by slitting each end of the strip l as shown in Fig. 2, are then bent in opposite directions as clearly illustrated in Fig. 6 of the drawings, so -as to iirmly anchor and secure the eye member in the fur piece. When so anchored in the fur piece it Will be observed that the prongs 8 of the eye member engage the fur piece on the opposite side to that engaged by the anchoring prongs 10, resulting in the eye member being firmly anchored, being held against movement longitudinally in one direction by the prongs 8, and against longitudinal movement in the opposite direction -by the anchoring prongs l0.

The hook member of my improved fastening is constructed in a manner similar to the eye member, with the exception that this member is constructed with a hook ll in lieu of the eye 4. The said member is illustrated in Fig. 7 of the drawing, and, like the eye member, is formed from a thin strip or iece of material, one end of which is pointed? the strip being slitted throughout the major portion of its length to provide fur anchoring prongs 10, the material being also cut at the prongs in the same manner as is done With the eye member. The prongs are twisted adjacent the point where the anchoring prongs 8 are located, and the remainder of the strip from the rongs 8 constituting the hook 1l, such hoor lying at substantially right angles to the plane of the hook shank, that is, to the plane of such hook shank before any oi the anchoring prongs 1Q had been clenched with the fur piece.

Having now described my invention what I claim as new, is

l. A member of a hook and eye fastener, made of a single piece of material having a pointed and slitted end forming anchoring prongs, the said strip of material provided intermediate its ends with outwardly extending prongs, the said anchoring prongs being twisted together adjacent the said outwardly extending prongs.

2. A member of a hook and eye fastener made of a single piece of material having a pointed and slitted end forming a plurality of anchoring prongs adapted to be inserted through a piece of material and clenched against one side thereof, and anchoring prongs projecting from said strip adapted to engage with the opposite side of said piece of material.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ADOLPHE KLEIN.

Witnesses:

MAX H. SRoLoVITz, K. H. BUTLER. 

